After threatening to strike on June 8, the union’s main focus was unity and solidarity heading to the bargaining table. It worked, and they secured wage hikes of up to 33 percent and ended a two-tier wage system.
“This is a revolutionary step forward for Pennsylvania that closes off a major threat to American self-government: foreign-influenced corporate political spending,” said MarchOnHarrisburg Executive Director Rabbi Michael Pollack.
“We can’t forget that democracy is not a spectator sport – it’s the difference between maintaining progress in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights and losing them,” said Fairness Pennsylvania State Director Sarah Hammond.
The PAC just endorsed 16 Pennsylvania candidates running for the state Senate and House.
Student climate justice activist Eliana Atienza shares how the campus organization is working to create change at the University of Pennsylvania.
The updated guide from the Brennan Center and All Voting is Local also notes existing laws prevent election deniers from disrupting elections by harassing, intimidating, or improperly influencing voters.
As the holiday has become mainstream, University of Pennsylvania Professor Kristen R. Ghodsee says #IWD has grown further away from its “socialist roots” and has “lost any association with its radical past.”
In Bucks County, around 71,000 workers would benefit from the wage hike, which accounts for 21 percent of the workforce.
Women’s Law Project Senior Staff Attorney Christine Castro says this provides “an opportunity to finally slam the door shut on the Medicaid ban” and “really safeguard the reproductive freedoms and autonomy rights of Pennsylvanians.”
The uncertainty around the Trump administration’s tariff strategy “is creating havoc” for Warminster-based Gamry Instruments.
“It is heartbreaking to see Congress embrace a budget bill that strips meals and health care away from children and families to fund massive tax breaks for the super wealthy and an unaccountable private school voucher program,” said PSEA President Aaron Chapin.
The Bucks County Beacons’s reporting on Senate Bill 780 was incomplete and inaccurate, argues the head of the Bucks County Democratic Committee in an OpEd.
Education reporter Peter Greene breaks down Mahmoud v. Taylor.
“Head Start has been called one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in American history and continuing this comprehensive program is a reason for hope,” said Adam Clark, region advocacy coordinator for Pennsylvania State Education Association.
